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TIL of Burj Al Babas - an abandoned $200m village in Turkey consisting of hundreds of Disney-style castles.
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Submitted July 07, 2020 at 02:35PM by LMUK
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TIL that serial killer Randy Woodfield was actually drafted by the NFL to play for the Green Bay Packers but was cut due to a series of indecent exposure arrests. He would go on to become the I-5 Killer and is thought to have been responsible for over 40 murders along Interstate 5 from 1980-81
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Submitted July 07, 2020 at 06:44PM by TomberryServo
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TIL that US embassy in Baghdad, Iraq is world's largest (almost of the same size as Vatican City). It houses its own power station, water & sewage treatment, internet and phone network, gym, cinema and sports facilities. Also has 6 apartment buildings for employees.
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Submitted July 07, 2020 at 05:50PM by sam-com
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TIL Tomb Raider was initially going to give players the choice of playing either a male or female protagonist. Lara Croft creator, Toby Gard, decided to scrap the male option after realizing having two player characters doubled the amount of work required for the cut-scenes and also preferred Lara.
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Submitted July 07, 2020 at 07:28PM by Itsformereally22
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TIL that in the 1630s there was a song only played in the Sistine chapel. The Vatican kept the composition of "Miserere Mei, Deus" secret for 150 years,until 14-year old Mozart listened to it 2 times, transcribed it from memory and produced the first unauthorized copy.Earliest record of music piracy
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Submitted July 07, 2020 at 08:38PM by Jimbos013
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TIL Charlize Theron has suffered many injuries such as dislocating her jaw due to a camel and laughing so hard at Borat that her neck locked up for 5 days
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Submitted July 07, 2020 at 07:14PM by the5pacepope
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TIL Seth Putnam, lead singer of the grindcore band Anal Cunt, wrote a song making fun of comatose people called ‘You’re in a Coma’. Putnam himself was in a coma years later, and after waking remarked that “being in a coma was just as fuckin’ stupid as I wrote it was”.
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Submitted July 08, 2020 at 01:35AM by churnice
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TIL Peter Hill was the first known African American clockmaker and the only Black clockmaker known to have worked in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He earned enough money to buy his freedom at age 27. The following year he married his wife Tina and purchased her freedom as well.
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Submitted July 07, 2020 at 11:59PM by CrispyCheesyToast
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TIL Sea Lions are considered to have the foulest-smelling flatulence of any animal, "by far"
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Submitted July 08, 2020 at 03:27AM by bwee33
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TIL: While only 2 percent of Europeans lack the genes for smelly armpits, most East Asians and almost all Koreans lack this gene.
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Submitted July 08, 2020 at 12:23AM by Ozaam
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TIL: Humanity invented nuclear weapons before we invented compound bows.
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Submitted July 08, 2020 at 03:48AM by Mad_Myshkin
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TIL Muhammad Ali was stripped of his heavyweight noscript, had his passport revoked and faced a five-year prison term for refusing to serve the US-Army in the Vietnam war. "I ain't got no quarrel with those Vietcong.", he said, "They never called me n****r."
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Submitted July 08, 2020 at 02:25PM by CrispyCheesyToast
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TIL that because the UK Royal Navy's Astute class nuclear powered submarines can purify their own air and water and run on nuclear fuel, that the endurance is only limited to 90 days due to breakfast storage capacity for 18,000 sausages and 4200 Weetabix
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Submitted July 08, 2020 at 12:36PM by papamot
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TIL A mathematician named Nicolas Bourbaki who has made many strides in mathematics, never even was a real person, but was a collective pseudonym for a group of mathematicians who wrote their own textbooks
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Submitted July 08, 2020 at 10:16AM by cyanine69
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TIL Disney issued a cease and desist against the screening of a movie on Kimba The White Lion due its similarities between it and Lion king. Disney has been heavily accused of plagiarizing The Lion King from Kimba The White Lion.
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Submitted July 08, 2020 at 03:58PM by peoplestv
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TIL that Scotland re-established its parliament in 1999 after the Scotland Act (1998) was passed by the British parliament after a referendum. One of the first words spoken in the Parliament were, "The Scottish Parliament, which adjourned on March 25, 1707, is hereby reconvened." - Dr. Ewing.
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Submitted July 08, 2020 at 04:59PM by sersleepsalot1
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TIL that Metallica was the first band to perform on all seven continents by performing live and un-amplified (to protect the environment) in Antarctica.
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Submitted July 08, 2020 at 04:05PM by Stormmiester
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TIL Fred Rogers proposed to his wife Joanne via letter. When she received it, Joanne rushed to a payphone to respond. She was so nervous that when Fred answered the phone she was focused on the phone booth graffiti and greeted him by saying, "Shit." Fred laughed and she agreed to marry him.
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Submitted July 08, 2020 at 06:53PM by Doodlebug510
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TIL that Elvis Presley recorded over 600 songs throughout his career and did not write a single one of them on his own.
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Submitted July 08, 2020 at 06:51PM by JF_112
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TIL that the man known as "Hide the Pain Harold" is named Arató András. He is a retired Hungarian electrical engineer turned stock photography model and stumbled upon himself as a meme when he was looking up stock photos of himself to see how they turned out.
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Submitted July 08, 2020 at 07:21PM by pnutbuttafly
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